Do we need more charter schools? Should public colleges be free? What role should tests play in the lives of students and teachers? On these and other topics, here’s where the gubernatorial candidates stand.
Inadequate salaries for public defenders and junior prosecutors lead to a system staffed by less skilled and experienced attorneys and potentially worse outcomes on both sides.
Mammas, do let your babies grow up to be comptrollers.
Have you made your New (Fiscal) Year resolutions yet?
The Council backs a $212 million proposal for half-price MetroCards for poor families. Mayor de Blasio balks at the price-tag. Why not compromise on free transit for low-income community college students?
Jackknife Comedy is a rad monthly stand up show the first Saturday of every month at The Creek and The Cave in Queens, hosted by two dummies from Iowa named Gideon Hambright and Patrick Hastie! Each show they pick a bunch of their favorite comedians to come do sets, be cool and have a blast! This months comics are: Alex Pavone (MONTREAL JUST FOR LAUGHS FESTIVAL), Carmen Lagala (BRIDGETOWN COMEDY FESTIVAL), Diego Attanasio (GILDA’S LAUGHFEST), Anya Volz (WOMEN IN COMEDY FESTIVAL), Jake Mattera (BIG SKY COMEDY FESTIVAL), Melissa Diaz (NEW YORK COMEDY FESTIVAL), Sam Rose (UFOLOGY PODCAST) and Christiana Jackson (SUMMON THE GOATS). Come out and party! Tickets are only $5.
There is a $15 million allocation for rental subsidies and a modest allocation for NYCHA, but also language on state oversight that concerns some advocates.
(That’s assuming the President doesn’t veto the deal.)
‘At a time when the number of children in foster care continues to grow in the rest of the country, New York is a model for keeping children safe.’ Will the money to support that work be withdrawn?
State payments to NYCHA have soared over the past couple years. But the vast majority of that money is actually Sandy recovery funding from the federal government, not from Albany’s coffers.